The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Romans 7:18 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot perform it. [I have the intention and urge to do what is right, but no power to carry it out.] American Standard Version (1901) For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me, but to do that which is good is not. Common English Bible I know that good doesn’t live in me—that is, in my body. The desire to do good is inside of me, but I can’t do it. Catholic Public Domain Version For I know that what is good does not live within me, that is, within my flesh. For the willingness to do good lies close to me, but the carrying out of that good, I cannot reach. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is to say, in my flesh, that which is good. For to will, is present with me; but to accomplish that which is good, I find not. |
The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
The LORD smelled the sweet savor. The LORD said in his heart, *I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don't forget your mitzvot.
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.
For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?*
That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
But put on the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice.
I thank God through Yeshua the Messiah, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.
Those who belong to Messiah have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Messiah Yeshua.
For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.